Stencil Tigu 4 is a bold, very wide, medium contrast, upright, normal x-height font.
Keywords: posters, album covers, headlines, logos, event flyers, industrial, aggressive, comic-book, punk, retro, graphic impact, grunge edge, stencil styling, thematic display, retro poster, angular, shattered, faceted, chiseled, asymmetric.
This typeface is built from chunky, faceted forms with sharp angles and irregular polygonal contours. Many strokes are interrupted by deliberate breaks, creating small bridges and cut-ins that give the letters a constructed, stencil-like feel rather than continuous pen or brush movement. Counters tend to be tight and sometimes implied by negative cuts, and curves are generally rendered as angular segments. The overall rhythm is lively and uneven, with noticeable asymmetry and a handmade, cut-paper geometry that reads strongest at display sizes.
Best suited for posters, flyers, album artwork, and bold headline treatments where its angular stencil breaks can act as a graphic motif. It can also work for logos and short branding phrases that benefit from a tough, cut-out look, but it is less appropriate for long-form reading or small UI text.
The font conveys a brash, high-energy tone with a gritty, industrial edge. Its broken shapes and jagged terminals feel rebellious and attention-grabbing, leaning toward comic-book impact and underground poster aesthetics rather than refinement or neutrality.
The design appears intended to merge stencil construction with a jagged, geometric display style, prioritizing attitude and visual impact over smooth continuity. Its fractured strokes and asymmetrical facets suggest a deliberate “cut and assembled” aesthetic aimed at loud, thematic typography.
The texture created by the internal cuts and jagged joins adds visual noise that can reduce clarity in dense settings, especially where counters are small. Numerals and uppercase forms share the same fractured, faceted construction, helping maintain a consistent voice across headings and short phrases.